Can you trust your gut? with GI doctor Trisha Pasricha

A gut feeling has a true physiological basis. I think the way we get it wrong though is that we take that gut feeling and then we say, okay, this gut feeling is good or this gut feeling is bad and we assign some value to it. But if you jump to label it too quickly, I think we can get this entirely backwards. Hey everyone, it's Adam Grant. Welcome back to Rethinking, my podcast with

Ted on the science of what makes us tick. I'm an organizational psychologist, and I'm taking you inside the minds of fascinating people who explore new thoughts and new ways of thinking. Trisha Posricha is a gastroenterologist at Harvard and the writer behind the Washington Post's Ask a Doctor column. She's been interested in the gut since she was a teenager. Now she has a new book out called You've Been Pooping All Wrong.

I have to admit, this isn't the kind of topic we usually cover on this show, but Tricia and I had a fascinating conversation about the brain-gut connection, understanding what butterflies in your stomach might actually mean, and yes, some things you didn't know you wanted to know about bowel movements. So this is an unusual conversation. for us and definitely for me. And I can't believe that we're doing it without children present because this is a topic that every kid loves. But I think there are some things that I need to rethink based on this conversation.

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